On the use of a 3D printer in mechatronics projects

Author

Abreu, Paulo ; Restivo, Maria Teresa ; Rodrigues Quintas, Manuel ; de Fatima Chouzal, Maria ; Santos, Bruno Filipe ; Rodrigues, Jose ; Andrade, Tiago Faustino

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Inst. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Porto branch, Porto, Portugal

fYear

2014

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

995

Lastpage

999

Abstract

The present paper describes the authors personal commitment in providing an education, research and development lab with a 3D printer. This facility has been an incentive to students´ activities. It has been possible to benefit from production functional prototypes timely. The use of the 3D printer technologies in promoting research and development activities at undergraduate level is reported. The work describes the context of the students´ work, the selection process of a 3D printer and provides some description of the ongoing works.

Keywords

engineering education; further education; mechatronics; three-dimensional printing; 3D printer technologies; mechatronics projects; research and development activities; undergraduate level; Collaborative work; Conferences; Decision support systems; Education; Mechatronics; Printers; Three-dimensional displays; 3D printers; engineering education; mechanical modeling; mechatronics; project based learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubai

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICL.2014.7017915

Filename

7017915